Quotes of: Decency Keyword

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Dag Hammarskjold

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Harold MacMillan

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness ...

Chogyam Trungpa

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Rita Mae Brown

Life without decency is unbearable.

Life

Is there decency left in American politics?

Byron Dorgan

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

Ted Nugent

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

Deborah Kerr

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Arthur Machen

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

H. L. Mencken

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Margaret Cavendish

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Gabrielle Union

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Meir Kahane

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Wintersmith

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

Shelley Fabares

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Aeschylus

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

W. C. Fields